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1  A thanksgiving psalm.
Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth!
2  Worship1 the Lord with joy!
Enter his presence with joyful singing!
3  Acknowledge that the Lord is God!
He made us and we belong to him;2
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4  Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give him thanks!
Praise his name!
5  For the Lord is good.
His loyal love endures,3
and he is faithful through all generations.4 5
1 100:2 sn: Psalm 100. The psalmist celebrates the fact that Israel has a special relationship to God and summons worshipers to praise the Lord for his faithfulness. 2 100:3 tn: Or “serve.” 3 100:5 tn: The present translation (like most modern translations) follows the Qere (marginal reading), which reads literally, “and to him [are] we.” The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and not we.” The suffixed preposition לו (“to him”) was confused aurally with the negative particle לא because the two sound identical. 4 100:5 tn: Or “is forever.” 5 100:5 tn: Heb “and to a generation and a generation [is] his faithfulness.”